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Walter Deane Papers. Archives, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Herbaria

Walter Deane was born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 23, 1848. He attended Harvard College (Class of 1870) and became a teacher at St. Mark’s School in Southboro, Massachusetts, and later at the Hopkinson School in Boston. He married Margaret Chapman Coolidge in 1878, and they moved to Cambridge shortly thereafter. His interest in botany began to develop around 1880, and after he gave up teaching in 1895, he led small classes in botany and worked for the Metropolitan Park Commission compiling a flora of the park system. He also had a keen interest in ornithology, working as a curator for William Brewster’s ornithological museum and assisting in the preparation of Brewster’s Birds of the Cambridge Region. Deane held no more paid positions after 1907, devoting himself to his own interests. He was a founding member of the New England Botanical Club and was very active in the local botanical community, helping with several floras and corresponding with a great number of botanists. For many years, he spent summers in Shelburne, New Hampshire. Deane died on July 30, 1930

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Consists of letters written to Walter Deane from 73 correspondents with surnames starting with K-M, arranged alphabetically by sender. Letters are both botanical and personal in nature. Other items include postcards, picture postcards, and black and white photographs. Correspondents are: Alice Kelsey, Frederic Hedge Kennard, George Golding Kennedy, Harris Kennedy, Mildred Kennedy, Fanny Kettell, Nathaniel T. Kidder, Harriet G. King, Helen Louise King (Edgar A. Guest poems included), Abby Kirk, Annie Hunter Knowlton, Clarence Hinckley Knowlton, Frank Hall Knowlton, Annie L. de Koven, T. Koyama, William Coolidge Lane, Rollin North Larabee, Constance G. Lee, John Thomas Lee, Mary Foster Light, Charles Linder, J.B. Lippincott Company, Elsie Locke, Percival Hall Lombard, London Harness Company, Bayard Henry Long, Rosamond Lane Lord, Milton Lord, Oliver A. Lothrop, Alice B. Lovett, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Agnes P. Lowell, James Arnold Lowell, Emma Ruthven Ludlum, Joël Lunell, Ralph Lyon, Nellie C. M-----, James Francis Macbride, W.R. MacDonald (Boston Opera House), Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Alexander Howard Mackay, Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Richards Bryant Mackintosh, James Melville Macoun, John Macoun, Joseph Louis Marie-Victorin (Brother Victorin), Josephine Peabody Marks, Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews, J. Maugham, William Ralph Maxon, Waldo Lee McAtee, Francis Eugene McDonald, Edith Endicott McMillan, Ellen McMillan, G.N. McMillan, Thomas Meehan, William B. Mershon, H. Stuart Michie, Gerrit Smith Miller, Emily Millet, Charles Frederick Millspaugh, Jack Miner, Edmund C. Moore, André Morize, A.B. Morong, Edward Lyman Morris, Lucy A. Morse, J.E. Moxey, William H. Munter, John K. Small, Hazel Munter, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Morris Gray, Arthur Fairbanks)

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